Burkhart Kroeber Books

SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM is the text to a series of lectures which became an obsession for Italo Calvino in the last year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Falubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and indispensable literary values future generations might cherish -lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. It is an eloquent and lively 'defence' of literature - a fitting gift for the next millennium.

Roberto Cotroneo schreibt in einem langen Brief an seinen Sohn über die Bücher, die ihn seit seiner Jugend begleiten. Er diskutiert Werke der Weltliteratur und deren Bedeutung, Struktur und Erzählweise. Cotroneo betont die Rolle von Phantasie und Kreativität als essentielle Lebenskräfte und erweitert seinen Brief um den Schreibprozess und dessen emotionale Aspekte.

In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.

Der Held Qfwfq erzählt fesselnde Liebesgeschichten aus dem All und raffinierte Anekdoten über die Liebe zu bezaubernden Mädchen im Universum.

Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth

Der Eco-Übersetzer Burkhart Kroeber hat hier 33 der interessantesten Aufsätze zu dem erfolgreichen Roman versammelt.

L'infanzia, la guerra partigiana, i rapporti con il padre... Cinque scritti postumi sul tema della memoria.

Una sottile strategia di paura e mistero avvolge i preparativi del Palio. Ma quale Palio? Quello delle 17 contrade vive presenti nella piazza tra squilli di trombe e volteggiar di bandiere... o quello delle 6 contrade morte che oscuramente, beffardamente continuano a correre e vincere?

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